Technology
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Went Down in Second Major Outage in a Week, Company Apologises
Facebook said on Friday that due to system limitations, users around the world could not access its services again within a few hours, also a few days after the massive outage. “We sincerely apologize to anyone who has been able to access our products in the past few hours,” a Facebook spokesperson told AFP at 21:30 GMT.
“We have solved this problem, and everything should stop now.” Three hours ago, the Trouble Tracker DownDector website reported that there has been an increase in reports of problems starting and using Facebook and its photo-centric Instagram network, as well as Messenger and WhatsApp.
Facebook attributed this problem to the configuration changes of its computing platform, saying it affected social networks and users of Instagram, Messenger and global workplaces. People huddled on Twitter to express their frustration. “What happened on Instagram?” Read a tweet with a picture of the cartoon character Bart Simpson sitting in the corner with empty sentences. “In less than 4 days, it dropped again.” “Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp have problems again!” Read the lament in the DownDector chat forum.
On Monday, billions of people were unable to access Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp for more than six hours, highlighting the world’s reliance on platforms owned by Silicon Valley giants. In an apology blog post, Santosh Janardhan, Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure, stated that “configuration changes” on routers, responsible for coordinating network traffic between data centers, caused trouble throughout the day. Network experts believe that the problem lies in the so-called BGP or Border Gateway Protocol-a system for selecting the fastest way to move information packets over the Internet.
Sami Slim of the data center company Telehouse likened BGP to the “Internet equivalent of air traffic control.” Just as air traffic controllers sometimes change flight schedules, “Facebook updated these routes,” Slim said. But this update has an obvious flaw. It’s not clear how and why this is happening, but Facebook’s router initially sent a message to the Internet saying that the company’s servers no longer exist. According to Facebook, the power outage on Friday has nothing to do with the power outage earlier this week.
Experts said that Facebook’s technical infrastructure is very dependent on its own system. Social media disruptions are not uncommon: According to website builder Toolster, Instagram alone has had more than 80 experiences in the United States in the past year. Facebook’s services are important to many businesses around the world, and Facebook accounts are often used to log in to other websites. Facebook’s apps are used by billions of my people every month, which means that power outages may affect a large part of the world’s population.
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Hollywood
Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025
Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)
Tom signs Nolan’s next
This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.
Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).
Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.
Tom’s busy schedule
Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.
As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.
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